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in great fear. The eagle now began to sail round and round above them, and presently 
appeared to make a false stoop at one of the hinds, whereupon the whole of the deer 
dashed off helter-skelter as fast as ever their legs could carry them, and went right out of 
the corrie and over the sky-line without stopping. Mr. Henderson, who is a stalker of 
experience, says he has never seen deer go so fast or appear so thoroughly scared when 
moved by man or other causes. 
In that inexpressibly wild and grand forest of Black Mount, where eagles are now 
common objects, is a narrow pass on the precipitous slopes of Clashven much used by the 
deer in winter, and a hundred feet or so below this pass James 1 M Coll, the stalker on 
this beat, has found several carcasses and skeletons of hinds, 1 which he maintains were 
driven over by the eagles. One winter day, when passing up the big glen which lies at 
the foot of Clashven, he saw an eagle stoop at a hind and nearly, but not quite, knock her 
off the pass. Happily, after a violent struggle, it regained its foothold, or it would un¬ 
doubtedly have been dashed to pieces on the rocks beneath. 
But that an eagle will ever attack a full-grown stag in the autumn I must confess I 
1 I am told that there is a similar spot in the Reay forest where hinds are annually killed by eagles. 
HOW THE GOLDEN EAGLE SOMETIMES GETS A DINNER 
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